Aebisher a Wing? Lindros and Nolan Could be LA Bound?

Rumours about restricted free agent David Aebisher intensify that the wings have made an offer to the Montreal goalie and that is why the talks between the Detroit GM and Belfour have stalled a bit.

The Wings are very interested in Aebisher but no names have been mentioned of whom the Wings would give in return if that deal could be made.According to the L.A Times, Spector`s hockey, hockeybuzz and Sportsnet

Eric Lindros and Owen Nolan are soon to be signed by the Kings it`s just a matter of time, both would be signed according to the newspaper at the league minimum.

There are like 15 articles on both sites, I read the majority of them and didn’t see anything. If there really is something there then why don’t you just make it a little easier for everyone and provide us with the links?

Gainey will not give up prospects for a guy like Lang. While he is a great player and an upgrade from Zednik, he remains an older player who can score. At 3.some Mil, he is slightly expensive, but nothing we cant absorb for a few years.

As someone said above: In bob we trust. He will not make a deal just to appease the Montreal media.

As GOD Gainey said yesterday — “This was never about just signing a player for the sake of doing so. I know I can hurry back to my office right now, place a phone call and have someone signed by this afternoon, but it wouldn’t be the player that I want,” admitted Gainey, before turning his attention to an unsuspecting journalist. “I’m sure you would like to get married, but you want it be with the right person, right?”

I like this trade, not cuz of lang but because we would get rid of Zednik and Aebisher , thats like 4millions right there, Zed 2 m. and aeb 2m. We save like a million AND no more stupid floating zednik 🙂

As a Wings fan I’m not interested in Aebisher or Zednik. I’d MUCH rather keep Lang and sign either a veteran goalie for league minimum salary (Belfour or Hasek) or trade for a more reliable netminder like Nabokov or Biron. I’m not impressed by either of the Habs mentioned. Abby is no better than Osgood. Hope these wings/habs rumours die quickly!

Just dont be mad cause the Canucks have the best damn goalie in the NHL in Luongo and Huet is a ok goalie but Abby just sucks ass,and dont be mad cause no1 wants to play for the Habs why didnt any UFAs sign with the Habs????

Some of you seem to think that the Wings have to trade Lang because of his salary which is total B.S since they have some cap room to work with.

Here is how the Wings payroll is set up as of right now (took this from the Detroit Free Press) :

The Wings signed defenseman Brett Lebda to a four-year deal. They now have 15 players signed for about $32.5 million. The salary cap will be $44 million. Here’s who’s under contract:

PLAYER POS CONTRACT

Nicklas Lidstrom D $7.6 million

Pavel Datsyuk F $3.9 million

Robert Lang F $3.8 million

Mathieu Schneider D $3.3 million

Henrik Zetterberg F $2.65 million

Kris Draper F $2.13 million

Kirk Maltby F $1.4 million

Tomas Holmstrom F $1.37 million

Mikael Samuelsson F $1.2 million

Niklas Kronwall D $1.14 million

Andrea Lilja D $1 million

Chris Osgood G $900,000

Chris Chelios D $850,000

Dan Cleary F $650,000

Brett Lebda D $550,000

So as you can see they are not up against the cap as some might think since they have Huddler, Filppula and Franzen will all be signed for less then 1 million per season. Williams will likely be signed at around 1.5 to 2 million per season no more. MacLean could be re-signed for under 1 million also…Tomas Kopecky is another young option the Wings could bring up to the big club also for cheap.

The Wings could have all the roster spots filled with a couple of million to spare for injuries and UFA’s to sign and it has been reported that Holland has been in contact with Markov, Carter and Samsonov to try and get one or two of them signed if the price is right.

No where in the Detroit News or Detroit Free Press does it ever say anything about Aebisher or the Wings having any interest in him since they have seen him play with Colorado a lot and know he is not a viable starter. Zednik and Aebisher for Lang would make the team weaker while most likely adding salary to the payroll so why would the Wings want to do that? Makes no sense what so ever…i would rather the Wings sign Belfour (i hate him and don’t want to see him with the Wings) and not give up anything then add an average backup in Aebisher and less productive and smaller forward in Zednik while adding salary. Hab fans seem to think highly of those two so they can keep them. Wings are in a better cap position then a lot of teams (Boston, Ottawa, Philly to name a few) so Holland will not trade Lang just to dump his salary or because he has to…the only way is if they get something to make the team better (Aebisher and Zednik) would not do that so could we please let those rumours die!

Not as bad as the Zetterberg for Antropov the Leafs fans had last offseason but this would still be a dumb trade for the Wings.

Not sure why everyone is so rough on Lindros about his time in TO, he helped us through the 1st part of the season when our captain was out. He cetainly wasn’t Alexander Ovechkin, but still what this guy did when EVERYONE was on his case in TO, he deserves alot of credit!

There are too many problems associated with him. It’s no accident that he hasn’t played over 40 games in a season since 02-03. Plus, he hasn’t had a really good year since 01-02. Playing Eric Lindros-style hockey nowadays is just going to get him hurt. Again.